MALICIOUS
98
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File Execution
T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious PDF
The critical ClamAV heuristic 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1' indicates this PDF is a known exploit. The 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' heuristic further suggests that a script is embedded within the PDF stream, likely to facilitate the download and execution of a secondary payload. The document body contains fragmented text that does not provide clear user-facing lures, but the technical indicators strongly suggest exploitation.
Heuristics 5
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-156969-1
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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embedded_file_obj0006.bindc79e8f6601477d759fe9b257fffb336190b4314c87657c8d3c372d491202bba |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x9DC | 6988 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 4 long base64-like blob(s).
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